Rocket Lab Electron Launches Mission ELaNa-XIX – NASASpaceFlight.com

A rocket lab launched its second mission for just over a month on Sunday. The electronic rocket launches at 06:33 UTC with a host of CubeSats for the NASA program for the educational launch of the Nanasatellites program (1965002) The 19th mission to deploy educational CubeSats in orbit is also the first mission commissioned by NASA's Venture Class Launch Services (VCLS). Rocket Laboratory, Virgin Orbit and Firefly Aerospace were selected to provide SMALLS special missiles to support the growing role of CubeSats in NASA's research.

Launch was the first flight to this program, carrying 13 satellites.

The electronic rocket is called "It's killing" after Sir William Pickering, born in New Zealand, heads the NASA team that developed the first US Explorer 1

satellite and became the director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This flight is NASA's First Race Laboratory mission

The electron transports Curie to the Third Stage "Laboratory of Missiles", which is used to inject 13 CubeSats in 500-kilo circular orbit with a 85-degree pitch.

With daily startup windows from 04:00 to 08:00 UTC begins on December 13 UTC and runs until December 21st. the initial experience was worn out due to bad weather. However, Sunday's start was launched at 6:33 pm UTC

Last week, our team completed a campaign in the new shiny new clean rooms of LC-1 for this week's NASA # ELaNa19 . All CubeSats are installed on the platform of the kit for the electronic fair and are ready for an elevator. The Launch window opens on December 13 UTC. December 9, 2018

CubeSat dispensers have been tested for compliance with the payload label, the payload interface and the missile in February this year. Useful loads were integrated into their dispensers in April and then dispatched from the Rocket Lab site in Huntington Beach, California, to the launch site in New Zealand

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A rocket lab completes the testing of Electron's second stage June 18, and completed testing from the first stage on Nov. 20. The electronic vehicle then arrived in LC-1 on November 30 to match the payload and overall pre-test

Carriers were encapsulated in the Electron load platform in early December. After the encapsulation, the payloads were united in the Electron, which appeared on December 5th. The successful rehearsal of wet clothes ended on December 8th, during which Electron and the startup teams continued full countdown before driving the engine, including the full refueling of the car.

Countdown to take off begins seven hours before the start when Rocket Lab rocket teams move to position. The electron was raised vertically on the launch platform four hours before takeoff, and the fuel tanks were filled with a propellant 1. The liquid oxygen was loaded into the oxidant reservoirs two hours before the launch

The electronic onboard computers started the start sequence at T minus 2 minutes. The first nine rockets were triggered during the test – through Rocket Lab

The first stage powered Electron up for 2 minutes and 31 minutes. seconds, followed by phase separation and ignition of Rutherford's only vacuum-optimized engine in the second stage. The load load, which protects satellites from aerodynamic forces during climb, is released 3 minutes and 7 seconds after they are released. The second phase stops 9 minutes and 6 seconds after the release and then separates from the start of Curie

. The speed of the kick intersects with the satellites for more than 40 minutes before an orbital injection of 90 seconds is burned. All useful loads on board were separated from the start of a T + 56 minutes

78 kg payload are cubes from both NASA's centers and American universities. One of the 13 satellites is the Advance eLectrical Bus (ALBus) from NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, a demonstration of 3U CubeSat technology that will demonstrate an advanced power management and distribution system. The satellite will be powered by solar arrays deployed by memory-memory-change mechanisms and will distribute 100 watts of energy

Also on this mission is the Comprehensive Radiation Belt (CeREs) satellite from the Goddard Space Flight Space Center in Greenbet , Maryland, who will study how the electrons feed and disappear from Earth's radiation belts. A specific area of ​​interest is how these electrons become energized during the microburst meteor events

Prepared Satellites – by Rocket Lab

The CubeSat of the University of Florida CHOMPTT will receive and return optical pulses from and to ground stations to collect time data to compare them with a clock on the ground and a pair of atomic clocks on the spacecraft. Researchers hope that CHOMPTT data can be used to increase the accuracy of time-sensitive satellites, such as GPS.

From the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, a pair of 1.5U cubes will hold a solar demonstration mission. Once deployed, CubeSail's payload will be split into CubeSail 1 and CubeSail 2 and will deploy a 250-meter solar platform between them. CubeSail will demonstrate solar sunlight technology in preparation for more advanced missions to explore the propulsion of a solar platform.

Another payload is ELaNa-19, which is DaVinci CubeSat from the Northern Idaho Charter Charter STEM. DaVinci is a 3U educational CubeSat, a camera and communication equipment, designed to inspire students around the world to pursue their STEM career. Schools in the world will be able to use radio transceivers to receive space ship health data and a message encouraging students to pursue their dreams

DaVinci will also conduct the first satellite connection to the satellite internet connection using GlobalStar's satellite constellation. GlobalStar's conceptual satellite platform launched between 1998 and 2007 on a variety of vehicles, including Delta and Soyuz, and has been in operation since 1999.

California Polytechnic University has contributed to its mission satellite with the Ionospheric Scintillation Explorer (ISOS) to study the radio interference caused by the Earth's atmosphere. ISX will be united by another NMTSat research satellite from the Minneapolis and Technology Institute in New Mexico, which will be used to monitor space time.

Another traveler is ELaNa-19, which will test technology that can be used to repair spacecraft in orbit. The Naval Naval Academy (RSat-P) mission to the Naval Academy of the United States has two robotic hands until it is moved through one or more test models to simulate the repair of a damaged spacecraft

Also flying a Shields-1 spacecraft from NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia and Flight Simulation 1 (STF-1 ) from the University of West Virginia. Shields-1 will test the resistance of radiation protection materials, while STF-1 will demonstrate established simulation technologies adapted to the CubeSat platform. STF-1 has been developed in partnership with the Goddard Space Flight Center.

A pair of TSP satellites (TOMSats) from the Aerospace Corporation, called EagleScout and R3, moved in orbit aboard ELaNa-19. Both 3U CubeSats carry image sensors that will be compared to those used for larger image satellites.

The final payload at launch is CubeSat, based on high-frequency space space (SHFT-1). The joint project between DARPA and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory aims to collect radio signals to study emissions passing through the Earth's atmosphere as well as emissions from other parts of the world

A rocket lab has successfully reached orbit for the first time on January 21 2018 a second test flight called a "rigid test". Aboard the test flight were two Lemur satellites for Spire, Planet Labs Dove Pioneer and Rocket Lab Humanity Star, who, with the naked eye, encouraged people on Earth to look up

Then, Rocket Lab Launched its First Operational Mission , called "Working Time", on November 11, bringing six satellites to four customers. Now, just over a month later, Rocket Lab aims to show a rapid turnaround for the third and final launch of the year.

Rocket Lab hopes to turn the inverse into a quick launch and accelerate its launch as early as 2019. adding Launch Complex 2 to NASA's Wallops Flight Platform in Virginia, which can come online in the third quarter of 2019